Algae of some sort on a dwarf cerith

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  1. Peredhil

    Peredhil Giant Squid

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    It's a little dwarf cerith. I saw it just now moving along the bottom with this brown string of algae with clear (white) bubbles in it floating up off its back. What is that algae?

    I pulled the snail and wiped it down with a towel and put it back.

    I don't have any algae problems I know of, so this was a little surprising.
     
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  2. ZachB

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    One of my snails had some algae growing on his shell - one of the other snails was nice and cleaned it off, lol. Also had a snail crawl in one of my Koralias to clean it off- he must have tried to clean the impeller, as it didn't end well.
     
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    Possibly cyanobacteria, which isn't an algae at all. They are photosynthetic however, hence the oxygen bubble hanging off the strand as a finished product of incorporating carbon dioxide as a starting point.
     
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  4. Peredhil

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    OK, that makes sense... coming off this shell is the ONLY place I can spot this... I will keep an eye out for it, but what should I watch for/check?

    ammonia, nitrite, nitrate, phosphate all 0. Being on a snail, the flow is variable :p
     
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